All Quotes

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.
‐‐ Sharon Van Etten

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.
‐‐ Brit Marling

The only thing that's in my control is to win ballgames and God is always taking care of me.
‐‐ Dusty Baker

The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good.
‐‐ Courtney Love

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
‐‐ Eugene McCarthy

The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.
‐‐ Daymond John

The only thing that seemed to me I could do in such a way that no one else could was acting. I thought, I can be a doctor, but there's going to be someone else who is just as good or better. I can be a lawyer, which I still sometimes think I would love to be, but I think there's someone who can do it just as good or better.
‐‐ Marcia Gay Harden

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
‐‐ David Viscott

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.
‐‐ Lee Whitnum

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
‐‐ Nicolas Chamfort

The only thing that surprised me about 'Lincoln' is that most of the critics who reviewed the film seem not to have grasped what should have been apparent right from the start, which is that 'Lincoln' is at bottom a play with pictures, not a screenplay.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
‐‐ Ray Manzarek

The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody's tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.
‐‐ Bryan Cranston

The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.
‐‐ Jose Mourinho

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
‐‐ James A. Baldwin

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
‐‐ Goldie Hawn

The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.
‐‐ Bjorn Lomborg

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
‐‐ Darrell Royal

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
‐‐ Gloria Vanderbilt

The only thing the East German system taught us was that we should never do it that way again.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

The only thing the Pop Artists had in common is that we all had been commercial artists in some manner. Lichtenstein was a draftsman; I was a billboard painter, but we didn't work together. I didn't meet Andy Warhol until 1964.
‐‐ James Rosenquist

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
‐‐ David Bailey

The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the record, the final masters, the artwork. Basically, I hand them a record.
‐‐ Regina Spektor

The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present age. Between the ages of 20 and four-score I visited every country in Europe, all save two in Latin America, ditto in Africa, and most of Asia, not counting eight trips to Australia and 60 to the United States - all by air.
‐‐ Paul Johnson

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
‐‐ Arthur Adamov

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
‐‐ Boyle Roche

The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.
‐‐ Bobby Farrelly

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
‐‐ Peter Drucker

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
‐‐ Henry Miller

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
‐‐ Antoine Rivarol

The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.
‐‐ Jimmy Johnson

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
‐‐ Tennessee Williams

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
‐‐ Harold Coffin

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
‐‐ Helen Keller

The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.
‐‐ Tom Waits

The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
‐‐ Herb Caen

The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.
‐‐ Afrojack

The only thing you can do to make catfish edible is fry them.
‐‐ Blake Shelton

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi